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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1912.

Application filed August 27, 1910. Serial No. 579,193.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WASHINGTON I. TUT- TLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in metallic boxes, and has for its object to provide a novel box bottom and means for securing the same to the box body.

The invention consists in a box embodying the features of construction and in the novel construction of box bottom hereinafter set forth, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the completed box. Fig. 2 represents a suitable blank of which the body of the box may be constructed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the blank, illustrating the formation of the longitudinal lips which, when the blank is bent to form the body, interlock for the formation of the body seam, and also the lips which engage with the box bottom. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the box body. Fig. 5 is a sectional, detail of the lower end thereof illus-,

trating a preliminary formation of the lips that engage the bottom of the box. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the final form of such lips previous to connection with the box bottom. Fig. 7 is a plan view of a suitable blank for the formation of the bottom of the box. Fig. 8 is a bottom plan view of the box bottom. Fig. 9 is a detail sectional view illustrating an intermediate step in the process of securing the bottom in the box body. Fig. 10 is a similar view showing the box bottom disposed and secured in the body of the box.

In said drawings, the reference numeral 1 designates a blank suitable for the construction of the body of the box. It has tongues 2 to be folded about the pintle 3 for the hinged cover of the box, and the edges of the blank are bent in reverse directions to form lips 4, which, when the blank is folded, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing, interlock with each other to constitute the body seam of the box.

At the lower edge of the blank are provided wings 5 which, when the blank is folded as shown in Fig. 4;, depend from the lower edge thereof opposite each other, as

illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, and are arranged intermediate the end walls of the box as illustrated in Fig. 1. The free ends of these wings are bent as best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing to provide lips 6 which engage tongues 7 with which the bottom of the box is provided, and as will be hereinafter described. After t-heselips have been fashioned and the body blank. assumes the boxbody form illustrated in Fig. ,4 of the drawing, the lower construction of the box body will be as represented in Fig. 5 of'the drawing, after which the wings are bent inwardly toward each other, presenting the arrangement illustrated in Fig. 6 of the drawing which position the lips of the wings will be in position to engage the tongues of the box bottom.

The reference numeral 8 designates a suit able blank from which the box-bottom may be fashioned in any suitable way into dish or cup form, as illustrated in Figs. 8, 9 and 10, of the drawing. The bottom of the box is provided at one edge with a recess 9 to receive the body seam. Intermediate the ends of the bottom of the box and opposite each other, and parallel with the opposite edges of the bottom, ton ues 10 are struck u from the material of the base of the bottom substantially coextensive with the length of the lips 6 formed on the wings of the body portion and which are adapted to be engaged or interlocked with said lips to secure the bottom in position in the body of the box. One suitable process of assembling the parts and securing the bottom in the box body is illustrated in the drawing, the operation being that the box bottom is fitted in inverted posit-ion over a suitable mandrel with the tongues upstanding. The body of the box with its wings and tongue engaging lips fashioned as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is then slipped over the bottom of the box and the mandrel, in which operation the tongues will pass into engagement with the lips as shown in Fig. 9 of the drawing, after which a suitable plunger or die operates thereon to press the interengaged lips and tongue into the spaces 11 resulting from the striking up of the tongues from the bottom of the box, as shown in Fig. 10 of the drawing. The bottom of the box is now held within the box body in a secure and simple manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is v 1. A box comprising a body having wings depending from the lower edge of the op posite Walls of the body and intermediate the ends of the box, said Wings being provided with lips, and a bottom provided with struck up tongues intermediate the ends of the bottom interlocking With said lips on the Wings of the box-body.

2. A boX body the opposite Walls of which are provided With converging Wings having lips adapted for engagement with tongues formed upon a boX bottom.

3. A dished box bottom the base of which is provided With struck up tongues inside of and parallel With its opposite edges intermediate the ends thereof.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WASHINGTON I. TUTTLE. Witnesses M. H. CONNOR, J. H. KLINGsTINE.

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